Gramps house 2 plus#

And it’s even more off the wall, more ‘funny peculiar’ than ‘funny ha ha’. The film is even less coherent than its forebearer, with a real sense of “let’s make it up as we go along” even with that wasn’t really the case. And even more kids would probably enjoy it.

Gramps house 2 plus#

This one – okay it has two zombies in it, a creepy opening scene plus an exploding head during the climax – but I wouldn’t consider it to be a horror, more a light fantasy adventure of the Time Bandits kind, and its ‘15’ rating is just ridiculous – it could be a ‘PG’, let alone a ‘12’. The first film did play many things for laughs, but can be still be categorised as horror. The idea behind this franchise was to have unrelated haunted house stories anyway, but I’m not sure I’d even consider this second house to be haunted – rather, it’s a pathway to different times. I would imagine that back in 1987 many viewers who’d seen House were either very disappointed or totally baffled by House 2: The Second Story, which for a start has nothing whatsoever to do with its predecessor.

They dig up Gramps, who is still alive after nearly a hundred years thanks to the skull, but when they return the skull to its rightful place on the mantle of the house, different dimensions open up in the house and a primitive man steals the skull…. Researching the family history, Jessie learns of his great-great-grandfather who was a Western outlaw, and about a crystal skull he found that promised eternal life to its possessor.

Jessie McLaughlin inherits a large old family mansion where his parents were murdered when he was a baby, and moves in with his girlfriend Kate and two friends Charlie and Lana. REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic Starring: Arye Gross, Bill Maher, Jonathan Stark, Royal DanoĪVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY: NOW, from ARROW VIDEO in the HOUSE: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION BOXSET